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"Find out what people will quietly submit to, and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
- Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist, Author, Orater
"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."
- Dr. Josef Mengele, Auschwitz' Angel of Death
"There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the illusion of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself."
- Jean-Jacques Rosseau, Author
"The illusion of freedom will continue for as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
- Frank Zappa, Musician
"In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm." - John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board "Occasional Letter No. 1", 1902
"Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses. ... The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group of leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied ot it by the leaders. ... It must be enlightened propaganda through the creation of circumstances, through the highspotting of significant events and the dramatization of important issues." - Edward Bernays, architect of Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information, the Father of Public Relations, and nephew of Sigmund Freud
"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to general global power." "The U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. In non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. We must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." "We must, however, be mindful that democratic change in Russia is not irreversible, and that despite its present travails, Russia will remain the strongest military power in Eurasia and the only power in the world with the capability of destroying the United States." "In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil." - The Defense Planning Guidance for 1994-99 (dated 2/18/92), written by Undersecretary for Defense for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy, Irving Lewis (Scooter) Libby. It was so controversial that is was substantially re-written under the close supervision of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Many of the original tenets are today intrinsic components of the Bush Doctrine.
"If the device that exploded in 1993 under the World Trade Center had been nuclear, or had effectively dispersed a deadly pathogen, the resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It would involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing a wider surveillance of civilians, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force."
- from a 1998 essay co-authored by Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, and chosen by Condoleeza Rice to be the primary drafter of NSS (National Security Strategy)2002, which encompasses pre-emptive war and is virtually identical to the proposals for the Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." - PNAC, "Rebuilding America's Defenses", Section V, "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force", 2000
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
- David Rockefeller, to the United Nations Business Council, 1994
"Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order (referring to the LA riot). Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guaranteee of their wellbeing granted to them by the World Government."
- Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child in this great country. We must take steps to insure domestic security and protect our Homeland." - Adolf Hitler
"We can lead by force of high moral example...(but) fear is much more reliable, and lasts longer. Once we show that we are capable of dealing out terrible punishment to our enemies, our power will be far greater. We are a warlike people, and we love war." - Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute Fellow, former National Security Council, State and Defense Department consultant
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